Product Manager

Are you a product professional with strong business acumen and relevant industrial/technical knowledge who can lead and manage both strategic and tactical activities of a business in a diverse and impactful role? Are you excited to resolve customer problems through great products, services, and solutions while making them a profitable business over their lifecycles? We are now looking for Product Manager to join our Product Management team in Sandvik’s Attachment Tools Division to speed up our growth journey and to lead and further develop our offerings related to construction, mining, and demolition solutions.

In Product Management, we are responsible for our products to meet with customer needs and expectations while our own financial targets set. This means that we drive, influence, and collaborate across the various functions and levels of our organization.

The preferable location for this position is our Division headquarters factory in Lahti, Finland. However, other location options can be considered. The role requires travelling globally e.g., to attend conferences & events and to visit customers and partners.

Your mission

As a Product Manager, your priority will be to understand customer needs and industry trends in both short- and long-term perspectives and convert them into clear product visions and offering strategies. These will be the basis for the product and project requirements set to the engineering and technology development organizations. Furthermore, you will act as a business case owner and project sponsor for the new product development activities within your product line. Finally, you oversee the selected products over the full lifecycle and ensure competitiveness, profitability, market fit, superior quality, and uncompromised safety.

Your main responsibilities

1. Develop and propose a product line strategy, analyze market trends and competitors, define market segments, and gather product feedback from various stakeholders.
2. Collaborate with R&D and Sales to identify and evaluate new product ideas and improvements and translate research findings into marketable products.
3. Initiate, define, and sponsor new product development projects, oversee launch planning, and decide on current product engineering priorities.
4. Ensure product profitability by determining product specifications, options, and pricing, and coordinate planning with R&D, marketing, supply, and sales.
5. Oversight of overall commercial success of the product offering, reviewing financial performance, product quality, and availability.
6. Overall responsible for managing the competitiveness of the product line in terms of technical features & benefits.

Your profile
We are looking for a highly motivated, innovative, and customer-focused leader with several years of experience from Product Development or Product Management. You have also experience in team leading, project, or other stakeholder management roles. By education, you hold a university degree (M.Sc.) preferably within the area of technical studies. Travelling is a natural part of your job.

You enjoy working in an international business environment and have solid hands-on capabilities to work with different stakeholders, such as customers/product end users, sales & marketing, R&D and engineering, finance, and supply chain. Energetic personality with a positive mindset along with excellent presentation and communication skills are essential to succeed in the position. Leadership skills are essential to lead virtual and/or project teams and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.

What’s in it for you?

We offer you versatile and interesting tasks in a truly international business environment, as well as the opportunity to develop your own professional skills and career. In addition, we offer good employee benefits and an inclusive corporate culture focused on sustainable development, with values such as Innovation, Fair Play, Customer Focus, and Passion to Win. We have a hybrid office/home working environment. At Sandvik, we believe that the diversity of experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds will contribute to successes for our employees, our company, and therefore also our customers.

Contact information

If you have any questions about the job, the recruiting manager Mikko Mönkkönen, Vice President, R&D and Product Management is happy to tell you more at tel. +358 406882701 on Friday January 17th, at 12-14, Wednesday January 22nd, at 8-10, and Monday January 27th, at 13-15. All times are Finnish time (EET).

To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site or contact HR Services Finland, tel. +358 800 1 44444 (weekdays at 9-11 and 13-15 EET).

Want to join our journey in setting new industry standards?

Send your application by Sunday February 2nd, 2025.

Click apply and include your cover letter with your salary request and CV in English.

We will review the applications and interview already during the application period.

Please note that we don’t accept applications by email.

Job ID: R0074377

About the company

Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability, and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure industries. We are at the forefront of digitalization and focus on optimizing our customers’ processes. Our world-leading offering includes equipment, tools, services, and digital solutions for machining, mining, rock excavation, and rock processing. In 2023 the Group had approximately 41,000 employees and revenues of about 127 billion SEK in about 170 countries.